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and trucks and tractors and new fencing and all the other things he wants for his farm and everyday life - the goods, in fact, produced by the vast majority of Americans who aren’t required to work on the land. MAN: Just consider these two ways of life and the astonishing fact that they can both exist at one and the same time on our small planet. WOMAN: How could this have possibly come about Why this happened in some countries and not in others- even though they may have the same climates and conditions MAN: How can people at a subsistence level ever lift themselves off the bottom rung of the ladder What’s the secret WOMAN: The secret is producing more than you need for your own immediate use. The point at which a community can create a surplus- is the point at which it can begin its long march towards a wealthier life. MAN: It’s also the beginning of the science of economics. 6
Division of Labor 1: Product MAN: Unh, oh, what did they say our way of life was called WOMAN: It doesn’t matter what it is called; still, if you must know, it’s called a subsistence economy. MAN: Subsistence economy. It’s terrible! I work day in, day out just to keep us alive. WOMAN: It’s not just him. Every human being here is just a machine. MAN: You fill them up with food and water and then you use the energy you get from food and water to dig the ground, to plant seeds, to grow grain and to keep the animals. WOMAN: And you eat the food you grow to give yourself energy to keep yourself alive to plant more seed to grow more food… MAN: …to give yourself more energy to plant more seed… WOMAN: …to grow more food to give yourself more energy…it’s a trap, you know, a subsistence trap. MAN: It needs a genius to get us out of this one. BOTH: Unh, ooh… WOMAN: Come on, kids. Run for it! MAN: Oh! It’s horrible! BOTH: Unh, ooh…oh, no! WOMAN: Oh, that landslide, it’s huge! MAN: And it’s blocked off the whole of the valley. WOMAN: Now we’ll never be able to get our cattle and sheep to the only grazing we’ve got! MAN: They’ll die and we’ll starve! If we could only get across the river… WOMAN: Oh, just look at that lovely green grass – enough to make any cow’s mouth water. MAN: But we’ll never get the animals across the river safely. WOMAN: Unless we build a bridge. MAN: But I only have enough energy to plant the seeds to grow the food to give me the energy to… WOMAN: Oh, we’ll never build that bridge. What we need is a genius. MAN: Wait, I have an idea! 7
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Page 3 and 4: MAN: And everybody seems to be depe
Page 5: MAN: Don’t worry. It’s bound to
Page 9 and 10: WOMAN: The Tailors. MAN: Right! WOM
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Page 13 and 14: MAN: He says a trader is somebody w
Page 15 and 16: TRADER: Oh, champion. WOMAN: There
Page 17 and 18: WOMAN: And we even managed to put s
Page 19 and 20: WOMAN: It adds up to a surplus. The
Page 21 and 22: MAN: Yes, and as a result: eight fa
Page 23 and 24: MAN: And for all but a few thousand
Page 25 and 26: WOMAN: And they spent all those eve
Page 27 and 28: MAN: Remember that first day The Fi
Page 29 and 30: Money MAN: It worked very well at f
Page 31 and 32: MAN: …time and energy which we ou
Page 33 and 34: MAN: To stop that, they specially m
Page 35 and 36: MAN: Trouble was they were just lik
Page 37 and 38: MAN: And there we were at the end o
Page 39 and 40: Supply, Demand and Price 2. Price a
Page 41 and 42: WOMAN: Yet, the surprising thing wa
Page 43 and 44: MAN: The higher the price offered,
Page 45 and 46: MAN: But would you believe it They
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